Van Halen News

Van Halen recently released its first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth. Available on double CD; four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl; and digitally. Stay tuned to VHND for all the latest band news!

On this day in 1986 (Aug. 16th), David Lee Roth began his first solo tour in Hampton, VA with Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai, and Gregg Bissonette!
In a new interview, Billy Sheehan gives a very candid interview about his years with DLR, his bizarre exit, the near "Eat' em & Smile" reunion, and how he almost ended up in Van Halen! (Listen below).
Eat 'em and Smile Tour
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Over the last three years, the VHND has kept up with three young musicians who've been performing excellent Van Halen covers, but always having to do them long distance, as two of them live in Québec, and one lives in Australia. This summer, however, they all got together for the first time — to perform several gigs as the Jacob Deraps Band! Watch their latest Van Halen cover, … [Read more...]

Photo: Alyson Camus
An impressive cover of Van Halen classic's, "And the Cradle Will Rock…”, was performed by Sons of Apollo this week, which can be viewed below.
Sons of Apollo is the newly formed progressive metal supergroup who confirmed they’ll release a debut album this fall.
The brainchild of ex-Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, the band … [Read more...]

In a new interview with Maxim, Sammy Hagar says he wants to get Van Halen back together--with both him AND David Lee Roth on the same stage.
Here's the Van Halen content for the interview:
There’s been talk of a Van Halen reunion tour with both you and David Lee Roth. Have you been approached and would you do it?
First of all, I have not been approached. Secondly, it … [Read more...]

RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL! @vanhalen #MetAtTheRoseBowl #WorldWired #Metallica #VanHalen
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Metallica performed an unexpected cover of Van Halen’s "Runnin' with the Devil” last night!
Metallica's own professionally filmed footage of the of cover at can be viewed above, along with some fan-filmed … [Read more...]

Stryper's Michael Sweet posted a great tribute to Van Halen's singer and frontman on his Facebook page. Here it is, for your convenience and reading pleasure:
If you don't know already I'm one of the biggest Van Halen fans on the planet. When I heard VH I for the first time not only did it change my life as a guitarist, it changed my life as a frontman/performer too. David Lee … [Read more...]

You may be cool, but you'll never be David Lee Roth-hanging-with-a-harem-of-sixteen-beautiful-women cool.
He may not be doing the splits 16 feet in the air off a drum riser, but even after all these years, David Lee Roth still knows how to make an eye-popping entrance.
The New York Post reported today that the Van Halen frontman was seen staying frosty at Standard Hollywood … [Read more...]

Miss the beat, you lose the rhythm. So what are you waiting for? Get in the groove and listen to Van Halen’s “Right Now” like you’ve never heard it before.
The Los Angeles dance duo Classixx has recorded a cover of Van Halen’s 1991 hit single “Right Now” for a new Innovative Leisure record label compilation album called ‘iL Loosies: B-Sides, Remixes and Other … [Read more...]

The interviews keep comin’, the devil keeps runnin’.
Noel Monk continued his recent run of interviews by appearing on Sirius/XM’s “Trunk Nation” with Eddie Trunk Thursday afternoon to promote his new book“Runnin’ With the Devil: A Backstage Pass Into the Wild Times, Loud Rock and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen”. Monk, yet again, provided fans with more … [Read more...]

Noel Monk Answers The Big Question: “What If Brown M&Ms Did End Up Backstage At A Van Halen Concert?”
Yes there were a few brown M&M sightings but they never came with nuts – as in Noel Monk going “nuts”.
Former Van Halen manager Noel Monk recently spoke with Brian Hiatt on the ‘Rolling Stone Music Now’ podcast to talk about his colorful seven year stint as manager … [Read more...]

Rolling Stone magazine recently asked a series of questions to the former Van Halen front man for their ‘Last Word’ interview series. Sammy Hagar commented on a series of topics like the best and worst parts of success, parenting, turning 70, James Brown, what he thinks of Donald Trump, a possible Van Halen reunion, and more.
Here's the Van Halen content:
Have you spoken to … [Read more...]